dandeliononfire: futurelounging: detective: We have an informant who led us to your registered acc
dandeliononfire: futurelounging: detective: We have an informant who led us to your registered account on Ao3.me: I… I just have it so I can… uh… leave comments.detective: So you deny authorship of the twelve stories listed under your Works tab? me: (starts to sweat) Please, I’m begging you, those are all for personal use. Just short stuff, I swear. Ficlets, even. I didn’t write any of it with the intent to distribute-detective: It says here that of those, eight are currently WIPs.me: I can explain. Look, they’re just-detective: The summaries all say they started as “one-shots.”me: (panics) Look, those weren’t my idea. You have to understand, there’s these birthday drabble blogs… First, they move into your neighborhood on Tumblr, you know? They make a show of good will; grease the wheels with free likes and reblogs. It’s all nicey-nice. But before long, they start demanding you write their stories for them. They’re like the mafia, I’m telling you! You never know who the mods are, because they never say, but, everyone just *knows* who they are, you know? Like a wink-wink no one will talk about. And everyone knows how bad they can slice you up in the fandom if you don’t give ‘em what they want. And if they get even a little whiff that you’re considering not taking their prompts anymore, trying to go clean… Well then that’s when the “anon” asks start piling into your mail box, saying all sorts of creepy stuff, like they know what your dog’s middle name is, or that your writing is ‘to die for.’ I’m telling you man, these guys are dangerous. Any writing I did, I was just writing in self-defense!detective: One of your completed works is over sixty-thousand words. And yet, the summary mentions NOTHING about a so-called ‘birthday’ cartel. SIXTY THOUSAND WORDS. Would you care to explain that? me: (backpedals) That one… uh… that one I can explain. It’s not a problem fic, you have to believe me. It meets all the rules of real literature. It even follows a three-part structure…detective: (raises an eyebrow) And yet, you labeled it, AND I QUOTE, “A one-shot.”me: (whimpers, begins to break) I know, I know. I’m sorry. I’m sorry… me: ….I’m so sorry. detective: Remind me, for the record, what the tags read. me: (crumbles into sobs) Mutual pining… -- source link